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Need someone to play a potty-mouthed, ex-alcoholic nun? An abusive, alcoholic wife of a college professor? A washed-up, alcoholic writer? Call Kathleen Turner, an actress who has made a career of hard-edged, in-your-face, booze-soaked roles. Now add the character of June Buckridge, the cigar-chomping, gin-swilling, lesbian soap opera star in a new adaptation of the comedy-drama "The Killing of Sister George," which begins preview performances at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre on Wednesday, Nov. 28. (The production opens Dec. 5 and plays through Dec. 23.) Turner returns the theater where she starred in "Camille" in 1986. "I'm seriously drawn to women...

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Need someone to play a potty-mouthed, ex-alcoholic nun? An abusive, alcoholic wife of a college professor? A washed-up, alcoholic writer?
Call Kathleen Turner, an actress who has made a career of hard-edged, in-your-face, booze-soaked roles.
Now add the...